Two more fall from top 10

The season has reached the home stretch, and the top teams have started to separate themselves. Two more teams were bounced from the top 10 of the JCGridiron Dirty 30 Rankings with big games looming.

Nothing changed at the top of the rankings as the top seven teams all held their ground. Mt. San Antonio College remains the lone undefeated team from the upper-tier programs after cruising past Orange Coast, 62-3. The Mounties now get No. 23 Long Beach City after the Vikings lost a tough battle with No. 5 Golden West on Saturday.

Iowa Western remains in the No. 2 spot after dismantling No. 29 Butler (48-7), a program that had upset previously top-ranked Hutchinson a week earlier. The Reivers now get a breather at Ellsworth this weekend.

Riverside City is holding steady at No. 3 after winning a shootout at Saddleback over the weekend (63-46) where the two teams combined for 1,078 yards. The Tigers have a chance to wrap up a Southern League title this Saturday when they host No. 11 San Diego Mesa College.

Both Ventura College and Holmes College saw their title hopes take a serious blow this past weekend. Ventura got dumped at Bakersfield College, 45-27, and as a result dropped 18 spots to No. 26 in the rankings. Holmes was demolished by East Mississippi, 51-15, and as a result will now have to travel to No. 10 East Central in the Mississippi playoffs. The Bulldogs dropped to No. 17 in the rankings with the loss.

Congratulations to North Dakota State College of Science on winning the MCAC title on Sunday with a 30-29 win over Mesabi Range College in St. Cloud (MN). The Wildcats are now 8-1 for the season and ranked No. 41 (on the bubble).

The rest of the Dirty 30 Rankings follow. Just a reminder, the Dirty 30 Rankings do not include games against club teams, prep schools, non-CCCAA, non-NJCAA or non-HJCAC programs in its rankings.

JCGRIDIRON DIRTY 30 RANKINGS

Dirty 30 Rankings (11/4/24)

Others on the Bubble: Kilgore (TX) 4-2, DuPage (IL) 8-1, East Mississippi 5-4, Dodge City (KS) 6-3, Jones (MS) 5-4, Mt. San Jacinto (CA) 5-3, Foothill (CA) 5-2, Tyler (TX) 6-3, Pearl River (MS) 4-5, Saddleback (CA) 5-3, North Dakota SCS 8-1, Garden City (KS) 1-8 (*6 forfeits), Pasadena City (CA) 8-0, De Anza (CA) 7-0, Allan Hancock (CA) 4-4, Highland (KS) 4-4, Diablo Valley (CA) 4-4, Cerritos (CA) 3-4, Sierra (CA) 4-4, Monterey Peninsula (CA) 7-0

Rk	School	City	Rcd	Next

1	Mt. San Antonio	Walnut, CA	7-0	v #23 LBCC
2	Iowa Western	Council Bluffs, IA	8-1	@ Ellsworth
3	Riverside City	Riverside, CA	7-1	v #11 SD Mesa
4	Northwest	Senatobia, MS	8-1	v #8 Gulf Coast
5	Golden West	Hnt. Bch., CA	6-1	v #48 Cerritos
6	Hutchinson	Hutchinson, KS	7-1	v #46 Highland
7	San Mateo	San Mateo, CA	7-1	v SJ Delta
8	Gulf Coast	Perkinston, MS	8-1	@ #4 Northwest
9	Georgia Military	Milledgeville, GA	7-1	@ #13 Lackawanna
10	East Central	Decatur, MS	7-2	v #17 Holmes
11	San Diego Mesa	San Diego, CA	7-1	@ #3 Riverside City
12	Butte	Oroville, CA	7-1	@ Feather River
13	Lackawanna	Scranton, PA	6-2	v #9 GMC
14	Modesto	Modesto, CA	6-2	bye
15	Snow	Ephraim, UT	4-2	v Monroe
16	Fresno City	Fresno, CA	6-2	@ #24 Sequoias
17	Holmes	Goodman, MS	7-2	@ #10 East Central
18	El Camino	Torrance, CA	6-2	v #26 Ventura
19	Itawamba	Fulton, MS	6-3	Finished
20	Canyons	Santa Clarita, CA	6-2	v #25 Bakersfield
21	Coffeyville	Coffeyville, KS	6-2	v Independence
22	Copiah-Lincoln	Wesson, MS	5-4	Finished
23	Long Beach City	Long Beach, CA	5-3	@ #1 Mt. SAC
24	Sequoias	Visalia, CA	6-2	v #16 Fresno City
25	Bakersfield	Bakersfield, CA	5-3	@ #20 Canyons
26	Ventura	Ventura, CA	6-2	@ El Camino
27	Navarro	Navarro, TX	6-3	@ NMMI
28	Fullerton	Fullerton, CA	5-3	v #40 Saddleback
29	Butler	El Dorado, KS	5-3	v #34 Dodge City
30	American River	Sacramento, CA	5-3	@ Santa Rosa